the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.